USC’s scientific glassblower lets chemists’ dreams become reality
Part artist and part inventor, Phillip Sliwoski makes handcrafted pieces that keep critical USC labs running.
Part artist and part inventor, Phillip Sliwoski makes handcrafted pieces that keep critical USC labs running.
USC researchers study the use of non-invasive electrical stimulation to improve mobility.
Trojan defensive lineman tackles an issue close to his heart: helping people age with dignity.
“When we went looking at these different utopias, we all realized that one man’s utopia is another man’s dystopia,” says USC’s Tyson Gaskill. “None of these utopias sound great.”
Ilana Spiegel is inspired by Rosie the Riveter, but the USC sophomore — who is Chinese, Russian-German and Jewish — had trouble connecting on a personal level. So she lined up 10 very different friends to pose as their own unique Rosie.
Silicon Valley has always been a popular landing place for young engineers like USC’s Stephanie Balais. So aerospace firms are stepping up their game to capture top tech talent, and they’s starting off early — very early.
Analysts tend to underestimate seasonality — for example, Six Flags makes most of its money in the summer — and this can lead to higher returns when those companies report quarterly earnings, according to a study by researchers including USC’s Tom Chang and David Solomon.
A rare type of early-onset Alzheimer’s being studied at USC is of great interest to researchers, and could help unlock some of the biggest mysteries of the more common form of the disease.
Research from USC and Temple looks at what behaviors make someone seem trustworthy and what behaviors indicate that someone really is trustworthy. Bad news: The two sets of behaviors don’t match up.
USC Annenberg’s Dmitri Williams observes that as new technologies emerge, the central question is: Does it help us enjoy one another, or get in the way?
USC has a health sciences campus in northeast Los Angeles that’s home to the Keck School of Medicine of USC and L.A. County + USC Medical Center, but could be so much more.
Of the many traditions that make the Rose Bowl special, the Lawry’s Beef Bowl is like no other: The restaurant has fed the teams participating in the Rose Bowl going back to the 1950s. The Trojans held court Thursday night.
About a decade ago, architect David Martin created a furniture creation class for the USC School of Architecture. “I thought it would last one semester,” he laughs; 10 years later, the studio is still going strong — and producing amazing work.
Sea-level rise and other effects of climate change “will need to be part of the planning and (have) not been taken into account,” said USC’s David B. Ashley, who led the Everglades restoration review committee for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
The USC football coach has guided his Trojans to the Rose Bowl; the winner will be announced Jan. 11.
Adviser Wyatt Sadler is confident that USC Viterbi’s AeroDesign Team will be ready for this year’s remote-controlled model airplane competition in Arizona.
USC definitely came out on top Monday, from high-profile appearances in the Tournament of Roses to a last-minute shocker on the playing field.
A study led by the Women’s Health and Exercise Laboratory at USC helps overweight women get in shape after chemotherapy.
The No. 9 Trojans come out on top over No. 5 Penn State 52-49.
USC 2016 | From the top women’s overall program to conference and national titles and an upcoming Rose Bowl, Trojans fought on to victory all year.
USC 2016 | The Trojan Family is making a difference, in the neighborhoods around the university and around the world. Find out how.
USC-managed stadium is the largest in the NFL and the second-largest college field to achieve the remarkable goal, repurposing over 90 percent of waste created by over 1 million fans.
Project will explore ways to reduce the gap between the needs of L.A.’s chronically homeless and existing housing and support service options.
When he’s not acting on stage, School of Dramatic Arts senior Chris Wozniak fires up football crowds for the USC Trojan Marching Band.
USC 2016 | A Pulitzer Prize winner and a MacArthur ‘genius,’, a blind football player; a composer and two poets and more than one recognition from the president — it’s been quite a year for the awards case.
USC 2016 | A stem cell miracle and a fish with arthritis, fake news and ‘the ultimate Pokémon’ — you won’t believe what USC experts are discovering.
The band has appeared at every Rose Bowl that USC has ever played in — and every USC football game in the last 30 years.
USC-led study finds that home care is beneficial for the children, but it comes at great cost to family members or guardians.
Ben Henwood is among nine professors to accept the challenge.
USC 2016 | Highs (academic rankings) and lows (admission rate) are among the USC stories that made the news this year, along with the return of a football star and a final farewell to an inspirational leader.
USC 2016 | Our team of photographers kept an eye — and a lens — on the university all year. Here are our picks from among the many memorable images they captured.
Here’s a present for the Trojan Family: The $700 million retail and residential project is nearing completion and will be open for business in August, right on schedule.
USC 2016 | From Currie to Fertitta to Kaufman to Stevens, several important new facilities made their debuts — and there’s more to come.
When political beliefs are challenged, a person’s brain becomes active in areas that govern personal identity and emotional responses to threats, USC researchers find.
Listeners can tune in for inspiration on starting that next big business.
USC 2016 | Transformative gifts create a new cancer center, provide new resources in social work and vision research, help veterans and much more.
Politicians and the public don’t seem to trust scientific advisers — a situation that could use a remedy.
USC 2016 | From actors to musicians to comedians to politicians, you never know who you might run into.